Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : a part epic Mahabharatham .
Spread in 18 chapters and 700 slokams and situated in Bhishma-Parvam of Mahabhagavatham, chapters 25 to 42.
The whole Gita is a conversation between Arjuna and Lord Krishna on various subjects, clearing all doubts.
We are all Arjunas and Lord is here as our Guru,
We must study this "Tattva-Sastram"and follow in our daily life.
We must realise Lord within us and not in temples only.

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Slokam-17. (Your form, adorned with various crowns, clubs and discs, is difficult to see because of its glaring effulgence, which is fiery and immeasurable like the sun.)

kiritinam gadinam cakrinam ca

tejorasim sarvato diptimantam,

pasyami tvam durnirikshyamsamantat

diptanalarkadyutimaprameyam.

kiritinam gadinam = with (kiritam) head dress, (gada ) mace;

cakrinam ca = (cakram) wheel, with all these things;

tejorasim = with great bright shining;

sarvatah diptimantam = shining everywhere;

durnirikshyam = difficult to see directly;

diptanalarkadyutim = with blazing fire and sun's shine;

aprameyam tvam = immeasurable, as you;

samantat pasyami = I see everywhere.

Bedecked with resplendent crowns, diadems, mace and disc illuminating all directions the Supreme Lord Krishna's visvarupa or universal form was so effulgent and dazzling with a radiant lustre so bright that it was unfathomable and thus impossible to d…

What was seen in the Supreme Lord Krishna's visvarupa or divine universal form is being described in this verse and the next 16 sloka-s. All hosts of various beings and denizens from all over creation some viviparous, some oviparous, all different categories of living entities.

The heavenly sages from the higher planetary systems are seen led by Vasistha and others as well as the serpents from the lower planetary systems led by Taraka and t…

Slokam-13. (At that time Arjuna could see in the universal form of the Lord the unlimited expansions of the universe situated in one place although divided into many, many thousands.)

tatraikastham jagat krtsnam pravibhaktamanekadha,

apasyaddevadevasya sarire pandavastada.

anekadha pravibhaktam = divided in many bright lights;

jagat krtsnam = of the Universe completely;

devadevasya tatra sarire = in the Universal form of the Personality of Godhead;

akastham = all together placed /situated in one and only place;

tada pandavah apasyat = then Arjuna could see.

What happened after that?

In answer Sanjaya explains that right there on the battlefield Arjuna saw in Lord Krishna's visvarupa or divine universal form the entire creation with its multiple and manifold divisions all coordinated and orchestrated in different parts of that selfsame visvarupa.

Slokam-s-10 & 11. ( Arjuna saw in that universal form unlimited mouths and unlimited eyes. It was all wondrous. The form was decorated with divine, dazzling ornaments and arrayed in many garbs. He was garlanded gloriously, and there were many scents smeared over His body. All was magnificent, all-expanding, unlimited. This was seen by Arjuna.)

Sanjaya is now speaking to King Dhritarashtra summarised in six slokas that the Supreme Lord Krishna being earnestly requested with devotion to reveal His phenomenal, awe inspiring visvarupa or divine universal form, gave Arjuna the prerequisite divine vision to see it and then exhibited His almighty transcendental form in its entirety.

This is what is understood by the word evam meaning in this way.

Then the omnipotent Lord Krishna who is being referred to by the name Hari or He who takes away all inausp…

The previous entreating from Arjuna regarding his worthiness to view the universal form is being answered here.

Lord Krishna confirms that His visvarupa or divine universal form is not material but is purely spiritual so He will have to give Arjuna divine sight, the celestial vision to behold the phenomenal wonder of His transcendental universal form which will manifest unlimited marvellous things that h…

Slokam-7. ( Whatever you wish to see can be seen all at once in this body. This universal form can show you all that you now desire, as well as whatever you may desire in the future. Everything is here completely.)

ihaikastham jagat krtsnam pasyadya sacaracaram,

mama dehe gudakesa yaccanyaddrashtumicchasi.

gudakesa! = hey Arjuna!

scaracaram krstnam jagat = with all living and non-living things, the whole jagat;

anyat yat = other things;

drashtum iccasi ( tat ) ca = if you are anxious to see, all of them;

mama dehe iha adya = now here in My body ( Visvarupam );

ekastham = all together ( present in one );

pasya = watch yourself.

Now Lord Krishna emphasises clearly that the total material manifestation consisting of unlimited things, animate and inanimate, moving and stationary, sentient and insentient all are harmoniously comprised within only a part of His visvarupa or divine universal form.

Slokam-3. { O Lord, though I see here before me Your actual position, I yet wish to see how You have entered into this cosmic manifestation. I want to see that form of Yours.}

evametadyathattha tvam atmanam paramesvara,

drastumicchami te rupam aisvaram purushottama.

paramesvara purushottama = O Lord;

tvam atmanam yatha atma = you about atma ( yourself );

etat eva = said, all ok;

te aisvaram rupam = your glorious form;

drshtum iccami - I wish to see.

The Lord said that because He entered into the material universe by His personal representation, the cosmic manifestation has been made possible and is going on.

Now as far as Arjuna is concerned, he is inspired by the statements of Krishna, but in order to convince others in the future who may think that Krishna is an ordinary person, he desires to see Him actually in His universal form, to see how He is acting from within the universe, al…

Lord Krishna is addressed in the vocative with the words kamala-patra-aksa meaning whose eyes are large and beautiful like the petals of a lotus flower and denotes His qualities of sweetness and softness of form as well as the repository of charm and beauty in look.

Slokam-1. ( Arjuna said: I have heard Your instruction on confidential spiritual matters which You have so kindly delivered unto me, and my illusion is now dispelled.

arjuna uvaca

madanugrahaya paramam guhyamadhyatmasamjnitam,

yattvayoktam vacastena mohoyam vigato mama.

arjuna uvaca = arjuna said;

madanugrahaya = in order to bless me;

paramam guhyam = the so top secret;

adhyatmasamjnitam yat = about the atma-tattvam;

vacah tvaya uktam, tena = by the advice you have given;

mama mohah = my vyamoham (my confusion on the subject);

ayam vigatah = here cleared ( confusion on Atma-tattvam is removed ).

For the purpose of germinating and increasing bhakti or exclusive loving devotional service the Supreme Lord Krishna in chapter ten spoke of His vibhuti or divine transcendental opulence and at its end in slokam 42 He alluded to His visvarupa or divine universal form with the w…

Introduction gives you what so far we studied, chapter after chapter, before the chapter-11.

Follow very carefully : - Very important each line which takes you to why VISVA-RUPA-DARSANAM, immediately after Vibhuthi Yogam....

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita :

Chapter-11. ( Visvarupa-darsana-yogam)

Introduction to the Visva - rupa - Darsanam :

Part-5. ( Last )

So here is a great treasure for us, and in this wondrous treasure of the Gita we have the supreme treasure of the description of the eternity and infinity that God is, the form which is called Visvarupa Darshana—Vaisvanara Tattva, which was revealed to Arjuna.

Sri Krishna showed this Visvarupa four times in his life. When he was a little baby, his elder brother complained to their mother that he was eating mud. His mother caught hold of the child and gave him a slap, “You are eating mud!”

“No, I didn’t eat mud. You can see my mouth,” he said.

He opened his mouth, and that lady saw the whole universe—all the oceans and rivers—a…

Introduction gives you what so far we studied, chapter after chapter, before the chapter-11.

Follow very carefully : - Very important each line which takes you to why VISVA-RUPA-DARSANAM, immediately after Vibhuthi Yogam....

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita :

Chapter-11. ( Visvarupa-darsana-yogam)

Introduction to the Visva - rupa - Darsanam :

Part-3.

We also have a curiosity, as Arjuna did, in the matter of this Universal vision.

Every one of us would also like to behold it.

And our desire to behold this Universal Form has a peculiar conditioning factor which perhaps prevented Arjuna from actually uniting himself with it, and left him in the same condition that he was after the vision was withdrawn.

He was the Arjuna that had the blessing of the great radiance, but he did not in any way become a different person.

He could not get transformed and transmuted into that light, because he saw it, but he did not become it.

Introduction gives you what so far we studied, chapter after chapter, before the chapter-11.

Follow very carefully : - Very important each line which takes you to why VISVA-RUPA-DARSANAM, immediately after Vibhuthi Yogam....

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita :

Chapter-11. ( Visvarupa-darsana-yogam)

Introduction to the Visva - rupa - Darsanam :

Part-2.

Arjuna said to Lord Sri Krishna :

“I heard Your glory from You Yourself.

Who can describe You except Yourself?

You have told me everything.

You have glorified Your Atman, Your Self, as the be-all and end-all.

Now I would like to see this wondrous existence of Yours, outside which nothing is.

It startles me out of my wits when I hear that You are the Creator of this universe, that the universe is in You and yet You are not in it, that nothing can operate anywhere, not even prakriti and the three gunas, without Your being there as the substratum.

Introduction gives you what so far we studied, chapter after chapter, before the chapter-11.

Follow very carefully : - Very important each line which takes you to why VISVA-RUPA-DARSANAM, immediately after Vibhuthi Yogam....

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita :

Chapter-11. ( Visvarupa-darsana-yogam)

Introduction to the Visva - rupa - Darsanam :

Part-1.

We concluded the Tenth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita, which gave a fairly good account of the glories of the Almighty as manifest in prominent and excellent forms in this world.

The Lord said, “Wherever there is immense knowledge and immense power, I am manifest there.”

If great genius, great strength, dexterity and great capacity to execute any work is discovered in a person—such as in geniuses like Srinivasa Ramanujan and Albert Einstein, who were exceptional human beings—it can be said that they are also one of the Vibhutis.

Though poets like Shakespeare and Kalidasa are not mentioned in the Gita, we may infer that they are all except…

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